
Altice elected COA chief judge
The judges of the Court of Appeals have elected Judge Robert R. Altice Jr. to a three-year term as chief, effective Sunday.
The judges of the Court of Appeals have elected Judge Robert R. Altice Jr. to a three-year term as chief, effective Sunday.
Can a Hoosier change his or her birth certificate to reflect his or her preferred gender marker? Depends on which Court of Appeals of Indiana judge you ask.
The Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer to 24 cases for the week ending Dec. 2, including one case that split the court.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is continuing to wrestle with requests to change legal documents for transgender children, parting ways with its own precedent and finding that trial courts cannot order a gender-marker change.
Even though the driver was pulled over on a private roadway, the drugs seized as a result will still be admitted as evidence after the Court of Appeals of Indiana found the traffic stop was a mistake of fact and not a mistake of law.
An elected LaPorte County official did not convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a defamation suit brought against him by the county’s attorney should be dismissed under Indiana’s anti-SLAPP law.
A mother who sued the city of Carmel after her child was allegedly bullied and “pseudo sexually assaulted” during a camp put on by the local parks department has not convinced the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the city should be held liable.
A contractor awarded $5.2 million in damages in a personal injury settlement lost most of it after the Court of Appeals of Indiana found the use of “you” and “your” in the insurance policy did not entitle the contractor to indemnification.
A man who didn’t like the offer county officials made to acquire a portion of his land failed to appeal in a timely manner, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
Hands clasped with a soft smile on his face, Justice Derek R. Molter sat in the front row of a packed courtroom facing his empty seat on the Indiana Supreme Court bench.
A minor who was found with drugs and a handgun after he ran from police has failed to convince an appellate panel that the evidence found on his person should be suppressed.
The sale and distribution of alcohol — or lack thereof — sat squarely in the middle of a legal battle fought between the product’s manufacturer and distributors, with the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruling for the beverage producer.
A split appellate panel has reversed a teen’s delinquency adjudication for auto theft, finding insufficient evidence to support the adjudication.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed a decision against the now-bankrupt Celadon Group, forcing a trucking company that tried to purchase certain assets from the Indianapolis-based business to refile its complaint in the state of Delaware.
Although neither trial nor appellate counsel proved ineffective in a man’s drug-related case, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed the denial of the defendant’s petition for post-conviction relief after finding he was convicted of a crime he did not actually commit.
A convicted child molester has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a mistrial should’ve been granted in his case due to an errant PowerPoint slide and the replaying of his victim’s testimony to the jury. However, the appellate court also denied a cross-appeal by the state challenging the denial of its request to classify the man as a credit-restricted felon.
A teen arrested for possession of a modified pistol will not shake his machine gun adjudication but has convinced the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a juvenile court violated double jeopardy principles when it also tacked on a possession-of-a-dangerous-firearm offense.
A dispute over who can make purchasing decisions and collect data for Lake County has been resolved in favor of the Lake County Council, despite opposition from the county’s commissioners.
An Indiana woman seriously injured in a car crash was wrongfully denied $10,000 in uninsured motorist coverage from her insurer, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Tuesday. The insurance company’s actions also led the appellate court to question whether it acted in good faith.
A mother with a history of mental illness and trouble with the law will regain custody of her children after a split panel of the Court of Appeals of Indiana determined there was insufficient evidence to prove her kids were CHINS. But a dissenting judge expressed concern about the children incurring their mother’s “wrath” if left in her care.